I am about to take my final decision as for a new gaming laptop. There is a fair amount of money in play but I am willing to spend it.
Would you rather invest more money in the cpu or the gpu? I noticed that at some point the cpu price increases significantly. The laptops I am interested in are the following:
MSI GE75 Raider 2021
Currently I own a Alienware 17 R3 from 2016, very briefly the specs are: Display 17.3'' , CPU i7-6700HQ (2.6 GHz to 3.5 GHz, 6 MB cache) , Hard Drive: 1 TB 7200 rpm , RAM: 16 GB DDR4 2133 MHz , GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB DDR5. Is still a good computer and I want to keep it for a while, the problem is getting old and my hard drive is very slow on startups (and occassionally). I want to play mostly Total War games from Empire to Troy Total War if able if not I would be happy up to the game can run. In my current Alienware I play Empire, Napoleon, Shogun 2 very well, from Rome 2 to Attila struggles but not too much.
Hopefully you can help me to take the best decision, RTX 2070 sounds very appealing but i7-10870H sounds very good as well.
Would you rather invest more money in the cpu or the gpu? I noticed that at some point the cpu price increases significantly. The laptops I am interested in are the following:
MSI GE75 Raider 2021
- Display: 17.3''
- CPU: Intel Core i7-10750H
- RAM: 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz
- Hard Drive: 1 TB 5400 rpm + 512 GB SSD
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB DDR6
- Display: 17.3''
- CPU: Intel Core i7-10870H
- RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
- Hard Drive: 1 TB SSD
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 6 GB DDR6
Currently I own a Alienware 17 R3 from 2016, very briefly the specs are: Display 17.3'' , CPU i7-6700HQ (2.6 GHz to 3.5 GHz, 6 MB cache) , Hard Drive: 1 TB 7200 rpm , RAM: 16 GB DDR4 2133 MHz , GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB DDR5. Is still a good computer and I want to keep it for a while, the problem is getting old and my hard drive is very slow on startups (and occassionally). I want to play mostly Total War games from Empire to Troy Total War if able if not I would be happy up to the game can run. In my current Alienware I play Empire, Napoleon, Shogun 2 very well, from Rome 2 to Attila struggles but not too much.
Hopefully you can help me to take the best decision, RTX 2070 sounds very appealing but i7-10870H sounds very good as well.